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At the European Youth Rapid and Blitz Championships, the German players had a great performance. Tykhon Cherniaiev won two gold medals, Luisa Bashylina one gold and one silver. Ruben Köllner and Tobias Kölle also won gold, while Marius Fromm took home a silver medal. | Photos: Dorian Rogozenco
The Magistral de León is a traditional event, which will see its 35th edition taking place this weekend at the City Auditorium of the Northwestern Spanish city of León. The main event of the festival is the 4-player rapid-chess knockout tournament with Vishy Anand, Boris Gelfand, Andrey Esipenko and Jaime Santos.
Thanks to a remarkable final-round victory, Amin Tabatabaei grabbed clear first place at the third edition of the Stepan Avagyan Memorial. The Iranian GM entered the final round sharing first place with Shant Sargsyan. The co-leaders had two players standing a half point back — namely Haik Martirosyan and Alexander Donchenko. The four players were paired up against each other. In the end, Martirosyan beat Sargsyan and Tabatabaei beat Donchenko. | Photos: Official website
The final round (ten) of the Battle of the Sexes match-tournament, held at Gibraltar, saw the men’s team win by 6½-3½ to finish overall winners by 53-47. The winners on the final day were Bobby Cheng, who beat Jovi Houska; Ravi Haria, who beat Olga Girya; and Bilel Bellahcene, who defeated Marie Sebag (her only loss of the event). Balazs Csonka drew his game with Marsel Efroimski and this was enough to secure his second grandmaster norm.
At the halfway mark in the 1969 World Championship between Petrosian and Spassky, the match score was level. Petrosian only needed to draw the match to retain his title, and with his super-solid Petroff it looked like he was going to wrap things up. But in game 17 and 19 Petrosian suddenly switched to Sicilian, losing calamitously. John Saunders retraces the course of the match that decided who would defend the title against Fischer three years later.